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Preliminary Agenda
Sensors Directorate
Monday, April 19
 
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Registration and Networking - Salons A, B, C
 
Tuesday, April 20
 
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast - Salon Foyer
8:15 AM – 5:15 PM
Plenary Sessions - Salon D
8:15 AM – 8:25 AM
Opening Remarks
Col Sandy Hockaday and Nivia Colon-Diaz, AFRL/RY
8:25 AM – 8:30 AM
CTC-1 RF Sensing Research Areas (Intro)
Nivia Colon-Diaz, AFRL/RY
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Video Phase History Compression (LSU, SU)
Student: Ricardo Cortez, Louisiana State University
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Position-Adaptive MAV Sensors for RF Direction Finding (LTU, GSU)
Professors: Dr. Rastko Selmic, Louisiana Tech University and Dr. Y.B. Reddy, Grambling State University
Students: Miguel Gates, Louisiana Tech University and Loni Taylor, Grambling State University

9:30 AM – 9:50 AM
Temporally-Coded UWB RFID Systems for Multi-Platform LPS with Panel-Integrated Radiators (Clarkson Aerospace)
Dr. Valery Zimin, Clarkson Aerospace
9:50 AM – 10:10 AM
Adaptive Arrays in Heterogeneous Interference Environments (GT)
Professor: Dr. Bill Melvin, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Student:
Jeong Hwan Bang (Dr. Melvin presenting)
10:10 AM – 10:25 AM
Morning Break - Salon Foyer
10:25 AM – 11:05 AM
Reconfigurable Digital Sub-Apertures for Advanced Interference Suppression Using Planar and Conformal Topologies (GT)
Professor: Dr. Bill Melvin, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Student: Stephanie Wilt, Georgia Tech Research Institute
11:05 AM – 12:00 PM
Automated Perimeter Security (LSU, SU, Clarkson Aerospace)
Professor: Dr. Valery Zimin, Clarkson Aerospace
Students:
Gustavo Chacon Rojas, Del Spangler, Xavier Dillard, Louisiana State University
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Joint Session Lunch - Tradewinds
Speaker: Joe Sciabica, AFRL Executive Director

CTC-1 RF Sensing Research Areas (continued)
1:30 PM – 2:35 PM
A Cross-Layered Perspective of Cognitive Networks (GSU, TnSU, PVAMU, CMU)
Professors: Dr. Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University; Dr. Annamalai Annamalai, Prairie View A&M University; Dr. Wei Chen, Tennessee State University; Dr. Y.B. Reddy, Grambling State University
Students: Reginald Cooper, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Odeyomi, Prairie View A&M University;
Husam Adas, Tennessee State University; Michael Terrell, Grambling State University
2:35 PM – 2:55 PM
MULTI-MODE UAV Sensor Technologies (MULTI-MUST) (TnSU)
Professor: Dr. Amir Shirkhodie, Tennessee State University
Student: John Drew (recorded), Tennessee State University
2:55 PM – 3:00 PM
CTC-2 Electro-Optical (EO) Sensors Research Areas (Intro)
Dr. Mike Eismann, AFRL/RY
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Advanced Hyperspectral Change Detection Methods (LSU, LTU)
Professors: Dr. Guoxiang Gu, Louisiana State University; Dr. Sumeet Dua, Louisiana Tech University
Students: Marcus Baines, Louisiana State University; Connor Johnson, Louisiana Tech University
3:30 PM – 3:40 PM
Afternoon Break - Salon Foyer
3:40 PM – 4:40 PM
Aperture Development and Beam Steering (GSU, LSU, SU, UD)
Professors: Dr. Pradeep Bhattacharya, Southern University - Baton Rouge; Dr. Martin Feldman, Louisiana State University; Dr. Joseph Haus, University of Dayton; Dr. Danny Hubbard, Grambling State University
Students: Vontrelle Collins, Southern University - Baton Rouge; Precious Cantu, Louisiana State University; Chris Bushmeyer, University of Dayton; Christopher Coleman, Hollye Williams, Alex Trochez, Grambling State University
4:40 PM – 5:10 PM
Lasers and Nonlinear Parametric Processes (UD, TAMU)
Professor: Dr. Peter Powers, University of Dayton; Dr. Chrisi Madsen, Texas A&M University
Students: Colin Hisey, Danniella Abreo, Brandon Gunn, University of Dayton; Donnie Adams, Texas A&M University
5:10 PM – 5:30 PM
Track-Before-Detect Algorithms for Barely Resolved, Low Contrast, Moving Targets in Staring Infrared Imagery (SCSU)
Professor: Dr. Hasanul Basher, South Carolina State University
Student: John Jones,
South Carolina State University
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Reception and STUDENT POSTER SESSION - Tradewinds
 
Wednesday, April 21
 
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast - Salon Foyer
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Plenary Sessions - Salon D
8:30 AM – 8:35 AM
CTC 7: Trusted Collaborative Sensing with Spatial-Temporal Awareness (Intro)
Felicia Harlow, AFRL/RY
8:35 AM – 9:00 AM
Advanced Research on Trust Management in Flexible Modal Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) (CU)
Professor: Dr. Paulo Martins, Chaminade University of Honolulu
9:00 AM – 9:05 AM
CTC-5 ATR/Performance Driven Sensing Research Areas (Intro)
Dr. Cheutaunia Johnson, AFRL/RY
9:05 AM – 9:30 AM
Remote Sensing (CSU)
Professor: Dr. Yu Liang, Central State University
Students: Eddie Wilson, Shane Fernandes, Lance Harris, Central State University
9:30 AM – 10:15 AM
ATR Testbed (TnSU, LTU)
Professor: Dr. Mohan Malkani
ATR Testbed: Perimeter Surveillance
Professor: Dr.  Fenghui Yao - Advisor, Tennessee State University
Student: Raymond Richardson, Tennessee State University
ATR Testbed: Layered Sensing
Professor: Dr. Saleh  Zein-Sabatto, Tennessee State University
Student: Adulqadir Khoshnaw, Tennessee State University
ATR Testbed: University Beat

Professor: Dr. Tamara Rogers, Tennessee State University
Student: Kenneth McNeil, Tennessee State University
10:15 AM – 10:25 AM
Morning Break - Salon Foyer
10:25 AM – 10:50 AM
Networked Multi-Phenomenology Sensor Node Development for ATR Testbed Facility (TnSU)
Professors: Dr. Ali Sekmen, Tennessee State University; Dr. Rastko Selmic, Louisiana Tech University
Students: Harold Hockett, Tennessee State University; Miguel Gates, Louisiana Tech University
10:50 AM – 11:10 AM
Search and Rescue at the Edge (NCAT)
Professor: Dr. Marwan Bikdash, North Carolina A&T State University
Student: Ilyolan Wald, North Carolina A&T State University
11:10 AM – 11:30 AM
Uncertainty Models for ATR Pedia (NCAT)
Professor: Dr. Marwan Bikdash, North Carolina A&T State University
Student: Monique Brisson, North Carolina A&T State University
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Data Mining Based Learning for Automated Target Recognition (LTU, PVAM)
Professors: Dr. Annamalai Annamalai, Prairie View A&M University; Dr. Sumeet Dua, Louisiana Tech University
Students: Wajahat Asif, Prairie View A&M University; Michael Dessauer, Louisiana Tech University
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Joint Session Lunch - Tradewinds
Speaker: N. Radhakrishnan, Vice Chancellor for Research NCAT (Ret)
CTC-5 ATR/Performance Driven Sensing Research Areas (cont.)
1:30 PM – 1:50 PM
Fusion of Voice & Lip Motion
Professor: Dr. Abdollah Homaifar, North Carolina A&T State University
Student: Terrence Brown, North Carolina A&T State University
1:50 PM – 1:55 PM
CTC 6: Enabling Sensor Device/Components Research Areas
Dr. John McCann, AFRL/RY
1:55 PM – 2:15 PM
Development of Bulk Crystal Growth Technologies for Chalcopyrite IR Materials (FU)
Professor: Dr. Pijush Bhattacharya, Fisk University
Student: Adrian Parker, Fisk University
2:15 PM – 2:35 PM
Harmonic Tags (NCAT)
Professor: Dr. Marwan Bikdash for Dr. Numan Dogan, North Carolina A&T State University
Student: Jonathan Matson, North Carolina A&T State University
2:35 PM – 3:10 PM
MEMS Applications for Reconfigurable Antennas and Wireless Data Sensing (JSU, UPR)
Professor: Dr. Abdelnasser Eldek, Jackson State University
Student: Abubaker Abdallah, Jackson State University
3:10 PM – 3:30 PM
Afternoon Break - Salon Foyer
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Future Topic Discussions - CTC 1, CTC 2, CTC 5, CTC 7
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